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Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter … in a number of other respects. The resistance…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… on to people rising up against these in order to create nations in which they had rights and could own property. [1] … protection of a Jewish nation in what…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… African People’s Organisation, the APO and the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA). These were essentially … in mind the failure of the AAC, the National…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… After the Second World War, a Southern Rhodesian Youth League was formed and performed a similar function as the African National Congress Youth League of…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was born on 6 April 1948 in Bergville, Ladysmith in Natal. He was an only son. Maphalala completed his schooling and matriculated in…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… the African Freedom Movement (AFM), and the Socialist League of South Africa (SLA). Radical members of LPSA were … of disaffected members of the Transvaal…
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
As a trader in the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national ANC deputy-speaker. He was a…
BiographyMolefi Paul Sefularo
Dr Molefi Paul Sefularo was born on 9 July 1957, in Potchefstroom, North West Province. In addition to public health management diplomas from the University…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…
BiographyTemba D. A. Mqota
Born in 1928, Temba D. A. Mqota was a student. He joined the African National Congress in 1946 and supported the Indian struggle against the "Ghetto" Act. He…
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald was born in Welkom in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 December 1956. She matriculated in 1974 at Roedean in…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
Lesedi Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… from South Africa and cut her away from the family of nations if she follows this Nazi doctrine. If the UNO, Europe … Chairman of the Council on African…
BiographyBilly Lesedi Masetlha
Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… which focuses on what caused the Six-Day War. The United Nations were unable to keep the peace for long. Eleven years … in relation to the Arab-Israeli…
BiographyJ. S. Likhing
J. S. Likhing was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was educated in the Cape and later, perhaps by correspondence, became a Licentiate in…
BiographyDundubela Aubrey Mokoena
Dundubela Aubrey Mokoena, was the former executive director of the Black Community Programmes (BCP). November 1978. Soweto. he was released from prison and…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… considered. 2. International Labour Conference under the League of Nations. 3. Compensation to the dependents of the Port …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… over to South Africa to govern as part of a Mandate of the League of Nations. In 1917, the colonial government imposed a dog tax …
BiographyNomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha
Nomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha was born on 22 September 1953 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha and Ntombinkulu Bhengu…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… millstones of the Dutch East India Company and the “wild nations”; and was seen to prevail over both because the Lord … called for the formation of an…
BiographyEmsley Manne Dipico
Emsley Manne Dipico, activist, politician and former Premier of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, was born in Greenpoint, Kimberley. Emsley Manne…
BiographyLaura Jean Levetan
Laura Jean Levetan was born in Cape Town in 1955, the third child of Lionel and Marie Levetan. Their household was steeped in Anti-apartheid politics and Laura…
BiographyVuyani Goniwe
Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… Conference 3-5 March 1961, S. S. Singh Collection. UNITED NATIONS AND SOUTH AFRICA Ever since 1946 the question of the … Nations, which regards itself as the…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… Urdang started working as a consultant for the United Nations (UN) when she became a member of staff for the Mid-Decade United Nations World Conference on…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… leadership nurtured in the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) comes into power in the African National … Congress (ANC) in the United States and…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™. The Continental Africa Cup of Nations, Final in 2013, was also played at the Stadium. FNB … Derby, that involves two South…